Refrigerator.



0. PHILIPPI. REPRIGERATOR.

APPLICATION FILEDADEO. 1, 1909.

.Patented Apr. 4, 1911.

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REFRIGERATOR.

To all lwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, O'rro PriiLirri, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in refrigerators and has for its object the production of a refrigerator provided with means visible from its exterior adapted to indicate the quantity of ice in said refrigerator, the same being of simple construction and efiicient in operation.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification and which is a front view of the ice receptacle of a refrigerator embodying my invention.

The construction illustrated in the drawing comprises a suitable refrigerator 1 provided with a suitable door 2 leading to the ice receptacle therein. In this ice receptacle is mounted an ice receiving platform 3 adapted to reciprocate vertically upon headed guide posts 4 taking through notches 5 in the edges of said platform. The platform is supported upon four conoidal springs 6 imprisoned between the bottom of said platform and the bottom of said ice receptacle. The platform 3 carries a rack bar 13 meshing with a spur gear lf which in turn meshes with a larger spur gear 15 operating an indicator 16 on a circular scale 17 visible from the exterior of said ice chest. By this arrangement it will be seen that the platform 3 will be depressed by the weight of a cake of ice resting centrally thereon thus operating rack bar 13 to operate indicator 16 on scale 17. Scale 17 is so graduated with respect to the spring 6 as to indicate points of weight supported by said Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led December 1, 1909.

Patented Apr. 4f, 1911.

Serial No. 530,844.

platform. rIhus the weight of ice upon platform 3 will be indicated on the scale 13 which is visible from the exterior of the refrigerator. It will be observed that by this construction, the effect of the depression of platform 3 will be reduced, thus giving the wide latitude of graduation to scale 17.

Vhile I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction this is capable of variations and modifications without departing from the spirit of my invention. I, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the exact details of construction set forth but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claim.

I-Iaving described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is r- In a device of the class described, the combination of a hollow walled refrigerator having an ice receptacle provided with a slot at one side leading into the adjoining hollow side wall; an ice receiving platform slidably mounted in said receptacle; springs supporting said platform; an indicator arm mounted on said platform and projecting through said slot into said hollow wall; a horizontally disposed forwardly extending indicator shaft rotatably mounted in said hollow side wall and carrying an indicator finger at its forward end arranged to be visible from the front of the refrigerator; a gear on said shaft; an idler gear meshing with said first mentioned gear; and a rack bar on said indicator arm meshing with said idler gear, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

G'ITO PHILIPPI.

Witnesses JOSHUA It. II. Porrs, ARTHUR A. OLSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

